"A tale of love, passion, and a murder most foul!"

On Monday, after spending < $20 on four items of clothing at the Garment District [black-and-pink polka-dotted skirt and ratty cardigan from the $1.50/pound pile and Liger tee & darling cardigan from upstairs], I did a little grocery shopping at Star Market, then went to Zeta Psi to mooch dinner that Justen helped cook.

After dinner the frat had a boys-only house meeting and Lauren and I peaced out. We're walking back to bexxx when we pass a young woman with shortish hair who [according to Lauren] did a head-swivel when she passed us. We go a few paces past her, and then she stops us, and is like, "I'm modelhunting. Have you heard of Vidal Sassoon? ...blah blah blah... I'll give you an A-line bob for free."

Fast forward to me not going to my chem lecture this afternoon in favour of taking the T to get my hair cut in a salon on Newbury St. For the low low price of free. Cha-ching!

It's probably never going to look as cute as it does now again because she used all this product and blow dried it and ironed it for about a million years. But currently it's pretty adorable, in a sleek, mature, 1920s way. I'll probably take a picture sometime.

In other news, tonight Johnny Depp won out over Dom Monaghan. :O

Voicemail: Hey, it's Sam. [WTF? ohhh. *recognises Mom's voice*] LSC has a free sneak preview of Corpse Bride tonight with Johnny Depp, and I know you're a fan. So I wanted to know if you wanted to wait in line for tickets with me, and then see it, otherwise I'll be bored.

So of course I called him back immediately, but it was already past 6, when the tickets were available, and he was like, "wahwahwah, I'm cooking tonight, so I'm trapped in the kitchen, but you can come over and eat."

And I was like, "um, that'll be the third night in a row and I don't want to be a grand queen mooch extraordinaire."

And he was like, "it's okay, we make more than enough food."

So I was like, "okay. Justen, let's go." [Because Justen knows the secret passcode to be let into the house and I feel like less of a mooch if I go with an actual pledge.]

When we get there, some random junior is like, "Sam [because they sometimes forget his name is "Mom"], I have an extra ticket."

And Mom looks at me and I make a pouty face and although I can tell it is tearing his heart in two a little bit, he says, "[almeda], do you want to go on a date with Will?" And I am like, "heck yeah!"

So I got to see Corpse Bride. For free. And it was fabulous. And Tim Burton is probably my one true love. And so I missed the season premiere of Lost. Someone somewhere recorded it for posterity; I can watch it whenever I want. And skip the commercials!

PS: I'm not failing any of my classes yet. Brilliant scores on all my psets thusfar.